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Quotes About Style

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
The most important thing in art is taste.
~ Sean Lennon
Documentary: That's a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
~ Walker Evans
I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
~ Roberto Cavalli
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.
~ Daphne Guinness
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
Fashion is above all an art of change.
~ John Galliano
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
~ Paul Klee
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
~ Vidal Sassoon
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.
~ Georges Braque
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
~ John Ruskin
Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.
~ Isabel Toledo
I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.
~ CM Punk
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
~ St. Vincent
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.
~ Tina Brown
I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.
~ Talib Kweli
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.
~ Dolly Parton
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.
~ John Constable
The art of dressing is the art we all practice
~ Anne Hollander
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.
~ Elton John
Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.
~ Judith Crist
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
~ E.M. Forster